A logic based expert system (LBES) for fault diagnosis of power system

This paper proposes an expert system for fault diagnosis of a power system using a new inference method. Expertise is, in this paper, represented by logical implications and converted into a Boolean function. Unlike conventional rule-based expert systems, the expertise is converted into Prime Implicants (PIs) which are logically complete and sound. Therefore, off-line inference is possible by off-line identification of PIs, which reduces the on-line inference time considerably and makes it possible to utilize the proposed expert system in real-time environment. This paper also presents alarm verification and correction method for relay and circuit breaker (CB) using pre-identified PIs.